"And it
shall come to pass that what men made shall be shattered, and the Shadow
shall lie across the Pattern of the Age, and the Dark One shall once
more lay his hand upon the world of man. Women shall weep and men quail
as the nations of the earth are rent like rotting cloth. Neither shall
anything stand nor abide... Yet one shall be born to face the Shadow,
born once more as he was born before and shall be born again, time
without end. The Dragon shall be Reborn, and there shall be wailing and
gnashing of teeth at his rebirth. In sackcloth and ashes shall he clothe
the people, and he shall break the world again by his coming, tearing
apart all ties that bind. Like the unfettered dawn shall he blind us,
and burn us, yet shall the Dragon Reborn confront the Shadow at the Last
Battle, and his blood shall give us the Light. Let tears flow, O ye
people of the world. Weep for your salvation."

- from The
Karaethon Cycle: The Prophesies of the Dragon, as translated by
Ellaine Marise'idin Alshinn,
Chief Librarian at the Court of Arafel, in the Year of Grace 231 of the
New Era, the Third Age